pluralism of a garden party

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This playfully entitles a set of seven sober discussions which go my own way, implicitly anticipating upcoming work to be done and shared.

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spring 2026

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I’ve been immersed in supporting the campaign of Xavier Becerra for Governor of California; working with lots of new project note; and sorry I’m not ready to put new discussion online. But soon!—by next Saturday, I expect. I’m working many hours per day to not have my update date be a disappointment, while keeping fidelity to what I want to do.

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a conceptual spirit constellating consilience

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preface to more-conceptual venturing:

• a conceptual spirit of telos
• for constellating interdomainal thought
• evincing telic consilience from appellant cohering

—not yet the interdomainal flourishing anticipated last week,
but I’m getting there, maybe later than sooner because my desire
to work more conceptually is presently more appealing.

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endearing fabulations

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Heightening a conception of “Literary” living seems at best these days to dissolve into prospecting comparative thought calling from appellant horizons.

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light houses

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“What, after all, is the function of great literature if not to enhance
the human endeavor and raise its potential beyond what is otherwise conceivable?  As Toni Morrison said in her acceptance speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, literary artists mine the resources of language
to produce ‘illuminations none of us has dreamed of’.”

from Literary Studies and Human Flourishing, “Introduction,” p. 1 

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i am text you bring to life

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I doubt you care much that “Literature” may be better understood as glyphical narrative appealing for invocation yet.

No worries, just cohering.

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winter 2026

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I have updates on literary-conceptual work, but I want a couple of days to add at the same time more than I have today. Coming.

The death of Jürgen Habermas last weekend caused me to do some updating of my Facebook/Habermas page. Also, I spent too much time defending Habermas at a couple of Heidegger discussion pages, which seems to have been a waste of time. One venture became a blog posting: “response to ambivalent praise for Habermas.”

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creating novel wilderness isn’t about tourism

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prospecting more about literary creativity.

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more away into high textual craft

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Three more sections of a manifold exploration of “literary” dramactionality today: “being literary,” “the humanistic origin of literary texting,” and “the usual ‘“Literature’.”

My venturing will have many sections, later to be listed as a single set of cohering discussions.

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a way into literary venturing

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As if implicit dramaticness of daily life is as textual as real interaction can be like reading each other’s situational authorships.

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authorship of authoriality

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Self-differentiation through writing as speech;

self-withholding in writing for an audience through an appropriate degree of candor, etc.;

receptiveness as “reading” another person;

writing the author of a silent text: Is it perceiving, creating, projecting?

Is the inferred author (the authorship) some weird mirror of one’s capability, preference, self-begetting?—

All of that is happening in non-“literary” life.

experiencing ordinary days as almost literary

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Today’s discussion begins a series on literary venturing.

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intelligent design

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Rationality should be understood relative to life-orienting Purposes
of flourishing, rather than relative to near-term goals which are means for bettering the quality of one’s life.

resorts of higher souls

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I suppose many researchers and artists feel as if the soul of their genius destined them to find high resort away from tyranny.

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gardening aspiration

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“Of philological gardening” recalls themes from autumn postings
(after a hermetic preface) as practical rationale for aspirational venturing through winter’s want of spring.

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winter aspiring

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My intent to write about aspiration led me into wanting to be clearer to myself about what I’m ultimately doing with all my projects: how does it all cohere purposefully?

I’ve gained satisfactory conceptions of It All. But its density of articulation, its semantic compression, wouldn’t make sense without extensive explication.

autumn 2025

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Good-bye autumn.

I expected to share new discussions before today, but my path got more bushy than I anticipated. The clearing can be seen, but I’m not there yet. Wilderness, you know.

Really: My prospecting goes where it feels good to go, which gets very complicated. But what’s apt to share online should be easily accessible. That challenge is another world.

And my optimism about sharing more soon tends to delude itself about “soon.”

Sorry (and not), but (and because) the clearing is seen, which looks to be fun.

Welcome, winter!

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appreciating what matters

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Several recent discussions have been combined as a single project,
“a better appreciability“ (i.e., ability to appreciate), including a new discussion today, the last one of the array: “high appreciability.”

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appreciation implies astute valuing

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Someone or something may be appreciated to have value or
be given value.

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giftedness of Time

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Time’s gift is a miracle of nature, from one’s eonically given genome, granting gifted mentability, to concertable cultivation of a healthy child’s individuation of promising futurity, its futurity and giving time to its generation’s futurity.

Every individuated action can be given to feel, want, understand, and belong in flourishing times.

One is gifted by the given presence of a person by finding integrity and singularity in their being, giving aptness to their ways.

summer 2025

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I’m enthused about upcoming points in my conceptual story.

But do I lose credibility by calling a discursive venture a story?

Narrativity is an elastic thing, like phenomenality, or “Literary” sensibility. 


But I don’t have more update for today. But there’s more Attitude coming soon.

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Sept. 5

I’ve combined four recent projects (late August through today) under a single title, as four parts of a single project, “a person-al humanity,” which was my intent at the beginning (early August). That exemplifies my ongoing plan now to do short pieces which are later combined under a single title after the pieces are done.

iso-belonging across modes of life

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Finding isomorphic relations is fascinating. The eight short parts of “iso-belonging” prospect my interest in isomorphic thinking relative to aspects of belonging, from a horizon of “a pragmatic sense of life” (previous note here) to conceptual modeling of action.

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fun with conceptual venturing

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Two discussions, on a pragmatic sense of life and belonging, continue my ventures into ways of which We are “human,” prospecting part of a holism of differential scales of being, from inner psychality to political life.

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doing philosophy as close reading

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This is a very close reading of a Heideggerian scholar’s essay on why he regards Heidegger as “mystical,” which is invalid (in my view), but admirably discussed by him. (The author, Richard Capobianco, is an acquaintance.)

My reading may seem tedious at times, but his essay is available by link (and PDF download) at the top of my discussion, for following along.

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person-al being

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Today offers a set of sprouts (brief topics) about ways of which We are “human” and beyond, following July’s first sprout: short “personity.”

My discussion may seem technical, or even tedious, instead of engaging. Sorry. It provides a sense of being which is beyond mystifications by scholars who secretly wish to do theology in a new key: exalted “Being” as some great mystery beyond us.

No. Science, humaniies, and conceptual arts are sufficient windows into Our evolving.

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a note on thinking

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You, too, can be modeled as an A.I. neo-animal

When Heidegger gave his lecture course on thinking, 1951, he was far beyond Analytical philosophy's implicit anticipation of A.I.

This discussion offers a short philosophical appreciation of Heidegger’s analysis of existence as prescient philosophy of action. It would probably only interest an elderly academic philosopher.

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sunday school

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A scholar of philosophy, passing his 65th birthday, muses at an online forum about his recent hopes for that forum, his future plans, and expresses a sense of aging: “It is both funny and a bit scary that you are now older than most people you meet.”

When younger, I always expected to find new perspectives (on a given topic) beyond mine, enlightening and inspiring me, because others had been on that important road longer. I’m no leading light in the cosmos.

gardening moments

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Flourishing sprouts, so being alive, among so many mysteries, so
little time.

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traces of another singularity

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This links to the two previous discussions below, then goes its own way to initiate an upcoming series this summer which will use aspects of earlier Web pages (2024, winter of 2025), but is independent of them: past as prelude.

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in medias res

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Latin: in the midst of things.

May we make the best of our times lastingly as events go by
in days becoming years.

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journaling: ephemerality certified

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Awake. Still alive. Thank goodness.

“Thank goodness,” they say.

“They.”

You, we, begin again because that’s what one does.

“Goodness”! You know what I think about “the” good generally,
which could be furthered at whatever degree of value interests you.

Degree, height, depth, extent.

I write to myself, I write myself.

spring 2025

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summer, whatever…I’m easily distracted from my path (building after the blueprint, protocols) by appeals of newly anticipated prospects
for conceptual cohering. A radiant horizon isn’t good for staying in one locale, you know—though I’ve lived in Berkeley over 45 years.

Getting sidetracked by fascinations may not be optimal for reaching
a given goal, but the eventual reach may be better for it.

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June 17

I’ve begun implementing my long-developed path, completed a week ago (after more than a year of themic design).

But I need a few more days for having a substantial beginning to share online.

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prospecting generative consilience

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On the one hand, I want to give in to creative writing, my specific humanity (so to speak): novel “molecular texting.”  

On the other hand, I want writing to be relative to vital contemporary issues, our general humanity (so to speak): novel “gardening better humanity”.   

Yet, writing to public issues is an externalist kind of molecular texting. Writing with personal license is an internalist kind of bettering humanity (my own, though).

Be it creative play or appealing to general urgency, expressing specific or addressing general humanity, appealing futures draw both.   

molecular texting

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I’m so many textual elements for constellating.

What compounds can I craft?  

But whether or not a presence is “Art” isn’t for me to judge.  

I want to make the best of cohering.  

A singularity of sensibility exemplifies itself best by not posturing
as exemplary.  

 So goes fidelity to ownmost going on.  

Yet, I do enjoy the idea of being influential. But I have no interest in being an “Influencer,” just being compounds I can craft, what free standing combine I’m to display.

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gardening better humanity

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So much can be said about thinking relative to a lived continuum of value domains. Here’s a letter emailed yesterday to an esteemed professor of political theory, then some added comment.

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post card from a high resort

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We’re artful beings
multimodal
of promising potentials
in love of solitude
being well
valuing conceptuality
cultivating humanity
advancing community
 

the lover

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As if we may be born again.

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Heidegger was not a "mystical" philosopher

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Common practice by Heidegger scholars mystifies what he was doing. But his calling is kindred with asking: What is the meaning (the significance, the meaningfulness) of being alive? That can be quite a mystery. But it’s resolvable, person by person, without supernaturalism.

Of course, questions of meaningfulness can scale to any horizon of interest, though beginning immanently was Heidegger's idea.

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after Arrival

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After enlightenment which feels awesome, teaching faces audiences (students, readers, collleagues) who might care little about the enthusiasm. But if you happen to want to venture highly, what’s it like to be on a good path? This short discussion isn’t the answer. But the bridgework for teaching is interesting to entertain.

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for philosophically countering Bozo politics

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Seventy years after Heidegger pursued his post-Holocaust, post-Hiroshima “question concerning technology,” the U.S. now has a Bozo administration welcoming intimations of techn-fascism.

I have the answer!—at X (screen shot there). I would argue that the humanities (U. of Penn. project) make genuine democracy possible, though I see conceptual modeling differently than the U. of Penn. project.

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“’Morality is for suckers,’ Trump might say.”

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My extended cynicism against Bozo turns into bibliophilic hope for “moral” philosophy in conceptions of educational excellence—though being “moral,” to me, is just ethical pragmatism treated as statutory normativity.

My discussion leads into a sequenced sense of moral conceptuality which can credibly ground a post-naturalistic sense of evolutionary ethics.

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winter 2025

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I’m working steadily, but openness to emergent themes goes where it appeals. I may have more to share next week or not. I hope to get closure on new developmental work this weekend.

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Feb. 28

I see a way station ahead, nearing more easily each day. I’ll write you from there.

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Heidegger receding into the distance

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Giving attention to Heideggerian themes feels regressive for me these days, but Heideggerians turn up in my online life: A Facebook group of serious students and scholars of Heidegger was pushed my way by Facebook; a new academic encyclopedia page on Heidegger irks me.

But also, I’ve wanted to provide an overview of what I’m doing altogether relative to long Heideggerian influence (like being more attracted to doing autobiography as one ages).

for intimacy of time being

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Heidegger’s sense of there being phenomenal implicature here (or any text) and there (any reader) sought to engage “us” in a venture of originary promise in thinking together (there linking at the end to here).

My discussion there highlights a concept of “It” which isn’t addressed. So, in light or that, you might wonder what “is” “It”?  

open interality in released Flow of immersion

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This recalls last year’s pages on interality (inter-ness, e.g., re: interplay, interaction, etc.) in a narrative of their links, free associating with the conception, which will sprout more topics soon. It’s about being immersive relating.

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Heidegger and “technology”

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reflections relative to the publisher’s description for an upcoming book on Heidegger and 21st century scientific industries.

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on a way to original thinking

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This shares my sense of Heidegger’s pragmatic originality. It begins
a little provocatively, then sketches a simple view which may seem superficial, but becomes conceptually holistic in an historical sense.

Inasmuch as he's my philosophical father, this discussion is why
I outgrew a loved home and departed for new ways.

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here

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Immersion in music playing itself, you: lost in a film showing itself,
or wholly lost to dancing—we play: playing flow flowing reverie horizoning—joy!

“Beyond words.”

So: inwordness tropes.

Yet, we’re also a window in saying how awing flight of time’s appellant cohering—release into “regioning of that which regions” (Heidegger), like the cosmos self-constellating—gives way, drawing oneSelf away into being time, freely awing, things thinging, points pointing like votexual distance emerging into nearing you, coming to you as you’re going there.

It’s a mirrorplay: bearing emerges from granting, yet given appealing enacts one’s granting.

writing home

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Am I drawn into wilderness because I’m pioneering; or I’m lost?

Whatever. I’m just drawn. And I don’t want to be inhibited by needing
to make sense briefly.

You’d think, though, that trekking where no one’s gone apparently is mistaken.

How many have been here—finding no guidance anymore—just insatiably drawn into horizons?

smart living: given to enactive fulfillment

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This goes forward beyond the last section of “...belonging...to belong,” (on being merely “social”).

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reality not chosen, reality I choose to prospect

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There’s no admirable point to political anger unless it leads to actionable valuation….This discussion is an outer worldly sidetrack from a project for tomorrow which is inner worldly, but highlights inner/outer liminality.

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Time gives gravity to prettiness where beauty emerges

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Airy living, 15 years ago, “soothing W. H. Auden,”
on extra-ordinary life.

That page hasn't been public. It was done for a beloved friend, Terese, whose eidetic memory penned Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" perfectly for me during a lunch.

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easily casual, easily alien

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This is the first part of a new five-part set oriented by the notion of belonging: being chosen to belong in relation with choosing to belong. It becomes very analytical, as aliens may.

In coming weeks, I expect to post more frequently than in recent months—and again before Dec. 21, I expect.

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autumn 2024

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Well, I am ready to add more, at last—a new beginning, in a sense—but that’ll take a few days.

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Nov. 23…Nov. 30

Closer, but not ready to add more; not frustrated, very enthused. A flow of regular sharing is immanent, next week I expect.

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Nov. 17

I avoid chronic anomie (if not mild depression) from daily news—
the suffering of so many regions—by immersing myself in development of my writing projects, hours every day, largely for the love of doing it. I haven’t put a lot online lately, but there is much in gestation.

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Extra!: literary scholar felt stalked

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Courage, follow a little autumn course into dark lightly.

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some of these days

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Life is strange, often beautiful, then you die, of course.

Not that I will be missed,
“honey.”

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a hallowing day

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I’m going to get you!

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a philological sense of Our evolving

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A famous biologist called Us “the poetic species.” I agree.

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writing life, a gain

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For some persons, life becomes text: aural, visual, written.

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summer 2024

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Finishing “for the best of America” feels like a closure on giving attention to the presidential campaign of “Ours,” in keeping with
what I noted below for Sept. 4.

Now, back to engagement with practical conceptual interests (which will result in more postings before Sept. 28).

And good-bye summer.

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Sept. 9

Life goes on, as time allows, be it showing marks, letters, history, or
the importance of words for binding us in kindred belonging.

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for the best of America

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My sense of “being a Democrat 2024” is basically about a personal life being well enough to be politically relevant, through interpersonal and cultural engagement.

Ours

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Here’s a short discussion, relative to the now-forgotten (?) Democratic National Convention, about the importance of words for binding us in kindred belonging.

That will be followed soon by a discussion of DNC specifics for a progressive realism.

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marks, letters, history

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email to an art exhibit reviewer.

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life goes on as time allows

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Morning. Coffee—well, lots of stuff between waking and coffee.

Checking email: A “mistaken” solicitation from Texas to survey my tractor experience (re: my lawnless urban street) escaped automatic routing to my spam folder. The option to unsubscribe could be a trick to route me to an automatic malware download from Russia or China or Iran. Such is living with political aggression in the metropole. (Such is my fantasy that I matter enough to be phished.)

some advice about inquiring and creative life

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Don’t be afraid to show your own understanding to others who seem
to be beyond you. If their opinion is worthwhile, then they’re not condescending. They won’t cause your anxiety to be validated.

Learning never ends for everyone who appreciates their own path.
The integrity of your venture belongs to you, not recognition by others.

And prudent trusting of the other is always worthwhile as one’s default presumption. If trust is betrayed, move on, but prudently trust again.

theming sprouts

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July 11

I’ll elaborate soon, maybe tomorrow, Saturday?, soon, because that’s
the nature of the thing, a sprout, here about that, too.

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July 12

And so I sprouted, sooner than I anticipated yesterday.

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free associations of a nomadic species

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An appeal of gardening types and kinds wanders across distinctions which are integral to my interests, but whose formal integrability isn’t intimated yet.

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spring 2024

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“Bloomsday for greater humanity” honors this highland day.

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love of minding

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being there: Of thering about conceptuality.

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integrity of oneSself as neologist

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Flourishing of oneSself is, at best, a balance of [a] open receptiveness and apt responsiveness of oneself with others (genuine living of s/p differentiality) with [b] the same of oneself with Selfality (authentic living of S/s differentiality).  

Authenticity and genuineness of flourishing lifepsychalness belong together in the same hopefully exemplary lifecycleness.

So goes my integrity of neologisms. integrity of heartful reverie.

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reverie of heartfulness

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This isn’t sentimentalist. It prospects a concept of background (deep) Self.

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being with, immanently

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Two discussions—“immanent being in time” and “being with ‘you’”—sketch senses of “interal” belonging of differentiations, from proximal phenomenality to complex interpersonal life. No sentimentalism.

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“genesis“: retrojective articulation of being

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Fun title, easy reading (mostly). It’s about immanence (Flow) of feeling phenomenality.

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resort

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Everyone wants a good story. This is about awing want.

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being person-al: beyond what They say

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My discussion of person-ness here follows from the second part of “It’s phenomenal” (April 22) about living experience. Its repeat of earlier themes is in a circumspective context of others’ standard views on being a person which will be analyzed later.

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It’s phenomenal

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A large-scale project begins today with a set of three discussions under the title “It’s phenomenal,” which isn’t a self-promotional title, rather a denotation of its overall topic. The first of the three is titled “manifold living,” The bottom of that page links to the second, bottom of the secon to the third, and all are listed on the main Project page (upper left button of each discussion page).

here now the dead

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One’s life can exemplify the virtue of authentic being, even when
not yet influencing heirs. Thinking of lives generally may reaffirm
a virtue of being for the humanity of caring.

So: a little sermon for Our grand story.

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springularity

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So, sing, you spring.

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is the Singularity nearer?

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Inquiring minds want to “No!”

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winter 2024

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No update apart from what I noted today at gedavis.com.

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Mar. 2

The posting on Derrida has no obvious relation to recent obsessions about better humanity, but it’s all part of the same Project: humanism, humanities, conceptual literary interest, interest in textuality, though that series is a stretch—abstract. Yet, a reader wants enhancement of their sensibility through arts, and arts are commonly matters of our humanity.

I’ll have better updates soon.

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postcard from the conceptual resort

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I’m with Jacques Derrida in fascination with our possible presence together here, i.e., through textuality, which is from me to an invented other, but also somewhat (inevitably) inventing the actual other in conscientious address. And the other—anonymous reader, loved one—somewhat invents the author.

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appeal of better ways

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A discussion I put online earlier this month, titled “To shape a better understanding to share, where should we begin?,” immediately dissatisfied me. So, I reconceived the thing, now posted as two discussions: 

•  “orienting life in relation with futuring humanity,” a couple of days ago. See the playfully titled “deep time...” posting below here, Jan. 24.
• today’s “appeal of better ways.” It constellates an array of themes for more specific attentions later. It’s a good synopsis of what I’m generally doing for my “project of humanity.”

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deep time of appellant horizons might show enthralling gravity

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“Orienting life in relation with futuring humanity” is inspired by how education undermines consumerism, undermines the appeal of authoritarian stances, and welcomes appreciation of manifold mindfulness.

Also, my discussion introduces a scalar sense of holism which is generally important for “The Project currently.”

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coming to terms

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Desire for new concepts—which I’ve not hesitated to satisfy—follows from working beyond the normal uses of standard concepts. That’s common in philosophical work, but easily seems hermetic.

The past couple of weeks offline have been very fruitful, in terms of more new concepts and advancing earlier themes. I love my days!

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the ensemble will now entertain you

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You poor things.

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being figurative is normal, for good reason

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“Meaning of significance: part 1” begins a venture about there being texted presence between author and reader which is usually figurative (showing implicature) manifoldly. A speaker/writer is figurative be-
cause being understood is normally wanted more than expressiveness.

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lifecycleness

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“‘lifecycleness,’ so to speak” prospects a felicitous neologism for exploratory conceptual work.

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autumn 2023

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No update, but you see below (Nov. 23, 24, 25) that a lot has appeared during the past couple of weeks. I expect a lot more to share this month.

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empathing toward Andromeda

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This is proximally about creative process, though ultimately about intelligent life.

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precious life

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Beyond polemic about “precious life” (sentient human life), I want to be specific (soon) about entailed fidelity to precious values associable with fair chances for thriving and individuational flourishing through curiosity, engagement, belonging, appreciation, aspiration, and much more that good parenting and teaching provide, which altogether draws a life into precious purposes, having life-long appeal. True community promotes, ensures, and advances precious reasons to live.

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heading toward a star

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Better lives design their futures relative to appealing ways of under-
standing, in light of which pasts are given significant meaning.

So, I’ve named my long listing of diary-ish, personal postings of recent years “designing and remembrance,” not that there’s direct focus on the above theme. See the “preface” there.

appealing ways of understanding

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My cyclic Project is at least that, maybe (to conceptually minded persons). I want to avoid vanity.

The topics of cycle 4 which seem most appealing to me for develop-
ment of cycle 5 are listed together under fewer, simpler headers here. The “preface” explains it all.

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summer 2023

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A narrative path over many years is a kind of extended care for being, though sometimes seeming more like alien distance of a mind possessed by its textuality—an odd cohering of ordinary life indeed: such conceptual prospecting of belonging in mystery.

mystery belonging in artistic mirrorplay

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I streamed a three-hour German film, “Never Look Away” (2018), which Lisa Zunshine (literary theorist) discussed recently, briefly. My reaction is a bit longer.

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building from a ground shared, not made foundational

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My conceptual venturing has prevailing interest in usefulness rather than showing expert fidelity to academic topics (which I can do; being practical eludes many scholars).

So, giving time to narrative about ordinary life expresses shared ground (maybe oddly so, for my part) prior to venturing which is very different (but to be shared), which isn’t abandoning (let alone devaluing) ordinary life by pursuing specialist topics, because returning to practicality is always my aim.

proximal cohering of ordinary life

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The Aug. 17 “…sense of passing days…” below has been combined with six new topics as the three part “proximal cohering…,” whose third part (the six new topics: “personified psychal cohering”) is somewhat ambitious (quasi-phenomenological).

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whose mind am i reading?

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We created gods. So, what else is new?

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an extraterrestrial sense of passing daysas human

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“Proximality and everydayness,” then “acting in ordinary attitude” begin the short project on value conceptuality.

So, the “Project currently” will emerge in terms of its parts, not at first as main headers: discursive parts of small multi-part projects which gradually become a 2- or 3-level table of contents for the Cycle 5 project.

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importance and nature of caring

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This is a midstream point in a project on value conceptuality.

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path marking

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• Cycle 1: 2009—2011
• Cycle 2: 2016—mid-2017
• Cycle 3: 2018 and merging Cycles 1 and 2
• Cycle 4: 2019—2022
• Cycle 5: 2023—

—in other words, so much conceptual homemaking.

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updated November 2024 / January 2025

I began Internet writing near the beginning of its general public availability as the Web, firstly (and heavily) in academic email discussions of Jürgen Habermas’s work (referenced as “archives of discussion,” mid-page here), a specialty I evolved during earlier decades while also I learned basic (very basic) Web page formatting and did lots of blogging....